Male Disposability – does the term strike any resonance with your thought process? Or is it that before striking any resonance do I need to ask the basic question – Do you even realize what Male Disposability is? If yes, then you probably know what’s going to be in the article. If no, read on to know it.

Male Disposability is a psychological behavioral and attitudinal syndrome that considers Men as “Disposable and Expendable” and invests very low emotional resources with males which ultimately leads to an environment insensitive to the problems of the male world or one that automatically eliminates weak men (or men finished off with their utility) viewing them as liability.

Since time immemorial, be it the life-endangering activity of hunting or saving the country-land or guarding the parameters of geographical boundary or maintaining law and order situation in the society – the latter two correlate to hunting human life – this role has always been attributed to men who have donned the same willingly boosted by their testosterone and chivalry. In a nutshell men have been hunters primarily and that is a defunct role in today’s era of pacification and intellectual progress.

Before talking more on Male Disposability, I would talk a bit on its genesis, taking cue from the article, Paradigm Shift in Male Identity: Freedom from Being a Hunter. During the hunting days, when men used to go on long hunting expeditions, any hunter talking of a minor leg pain or a slight backache was detrimental to the morale of the hunters and was silenced, trivializing his pain.

Even today the society has been pretty much the same for men. Earlier it was hunting, in today’s world its taking huge risks – financial, intellectual, emotional, physical, political – to name a few, that men are expected of and in such a situation, talking of small problems like an emotional turmoil in a relationship or facing lack of freedom of choices will bring down the morale of other risk-taking hunters and thus men are discouraged from expressing their pain.

This leads to a lot of psycho-emotional suffocation within men which has a direct bearing on their lifestyle, life-expectancy, health and suicide rate as visible from the following data collected from various sources of the Government.

Interestingly, in this so called MALE DOMINATED WORLD, the DOMINATED MALES never get a voice as corroborated by the following figures.

Life Expectancy Data:

Plotted as a Graph looks something like,

Plotted as a Graph, looks something like

And the suicide ratio for men vs. women has also always increased as shown below.

The above data clearly points to the stress in men’s lives due to which they not only commit suicide in large numbers (approaching double that of women) but who survive the turmoil, live shorter. That being the reality, there is also another grim reality and that is

NO SOCIAL / LEGAL / PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE AVAILABLE FOR MEN.

Quintessentially the problems of the male world are oblivious to the society and as long as men are discharging their duties no one really needs to bother about them and can readily dispose them off, after all even Mother Nature produces them in abundance; what with the normal gender birth ratio being 950 females : 1000 males.

Choice is left with readers to decide whether Male Disposability is a Myth or a Reality?

Data Courtesy: Arnab Ganguly

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Gokul.P.R  - Similar article mentioning male disposability     |111.92.88.xxx |01-01-2010 23:43:00 Do Men Benefit From Being the Norm?http://www.pellebilling.com/2009/12/do-men-bene... Reply | Quote 0   0

bishwajeet sinha  - reply   |117.198.56.xxx |21-01-2010 18:57:51 Godd one ! Reply | Quote 0   0

anjan chowdhury  - male disposability- Myth 0r reality   |59.177.101.xxx |02-02-2010 12:23:01 Dear Fight for justice, You all are doing magnificent job. I am sure your effort will accelerate the achievement of all of our dream of abolition of all gender biased laws and introduction of gender neutral laws in this country, where men will not have to live in constant fear that he is susceptible to implication in false cases by the opposite gender, where men can live and work in peace even after marriage and fulfill all his obligations fearlessly. My thousand salutes to you all brave and noble souls. Reply | Quote 1   0

Neha Bagoria     |122.167.85.xxx |04-03-2010 03:00:08 Arnab I agree that there are various instances where women(urban) take advantage of being weaker sex. But this can\'t outwit the oppressed state of many women around the world. Since its still a men\'s world they undergo highest level of pressure to excel viz., social status,financial power,family demands etc. But then that\'s what most men have chosen for to live with. Will men choose to be second fiddle? Its not a crime to be in primary role but then one should be ready to bear the heatwave it entails too. I agree with the data on life expectancy ratio but not with marital suicide ratio.Most of the martial suicide have reason of dowry and domestic violence against women. Reply | Quote 0   0

Virag  - Accept the facts and reality     |122.167.85.xxx |04-03-2010 05:23:56 Neha, First of all, it is not at all a men\'s world. Yes you may argue that it is men who occupy most of the top and power positions. But based on that, you cannot deduce that men dominate the world. Its the men who die in far higher numbers, take far greater risks and do not have any rights. It is just a perception, without any effort to look into the reality, that it is a men\'s world. Read this, http://wemen.us/articles/views/246-and-they -call-it-a-mans-world.html \"Will men choose to be second fiddle?\" Allow them, can you? And then you would have to take all responsibilities, ready to take? Ready to protect and provide? It is very easy to preach, practice and then realize. \"I agree with the data on life expectancy ratio but not with marital suicide ratio.Most of the martial suicide have reason of dowry and domestic violence against women.\" Its not the issue whether you agree or not. Reality is reality - whether you accept or not. You are yourself admitting that domestic violence/dowry kills people, what makes you think it does not kill men. Figures already tell you it kills more men. Reply | Quote 1   0

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